{"id":4629,"date":"2013-04-18T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2013-04-19T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:53:34","slug":"what-dramatic-method-did-kris-kristofferson-use-to-get-johnny-cash-to-pay-attention-to-his-demo-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/04\/18\/what-dramatic-method-did-kris-kristofferson-use-to-get-johnny-cash-to-pay-attention-to-his-demo-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dramatic Method Did Kris Kristofferson Use to Get Johnny Cash to Pay Attention to His Demo Tapes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MUSIC URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Kris Kristofferson used a highly dramatic method of getting Johnny Cash to pay attention to his demo tapes.<\/p>\n

Kris Kristofferson got into the music industry relatively late in life. He was a trained helicopter pilot and served in the United States Army during the early 1960s. While stationed in Germany during the 1960s, he got together his first band and continued writing songs – something he first started doing while he was attending Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship in the late 1950s. While at Oxford, he received a graduate degree in English Literature. He ended his tenure with the Army in 1965 at the age of 32. He turned down an opportunity to teach English Literature at West Point to pursue a career in music.<\/p>\n

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So Kristofferson got a job down in Nashville, doing different sorts of odd jobs while trying to make it in the music business. One job was as a janitor at Columbia Record’s recording studio in Nashville. Very early on in his tenure there, he was present when Bob Dylan came down to Nashville to record songs for Blonde on Blonde.<\/p>\n

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